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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > October
> October 10, 2003:
Hour Two: The Passionate Mind
What makes you YOU? Is it a physical part of your brain? Some cocktail
of neurotransmitters unique to you? Or something else entirely?
Both science and the arts have been tackling the age-old questions
of the nature of the brain, mind, and self. But do the approaches
to passion and personality used by the 'hard' sciences, social sciences,
and humanities overlap? Can one be used to influence the other? In
this hour of Science Friday, Ira talks with participants in the University
of Utah's Symposium
in Science and Literature. We'll talk with leading neuroscientists,
authors, and philosophers about different approaches to dealing with
the mind, brain, and personal identity.
Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (3-4 Eastern),
and share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Thomas Metzinger
Author, “Being
No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity”
Professor of Philosophy
Director of the Theoretical
Philosophy Group at the Department
of Philosophy
Johannes Gutenberg
University
Mainz, Germany
Jorie Graham
Author, “Never”
and “The
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994”
Winner of the 1996
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Antonio Damasio
Author, “The
Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion, and the Making of Consciousness”
and “Looking
for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain”
Adjunct Professor at The Salk Institute
in La Jolla
Van Allen Distinguished Professor Head of the Department
of Neurology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Books/Articles Discussed:
- "Looking
for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain" by Antonio
Damasio. Harcourt, 2003.
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- “The
Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion, and the Making of
Consciousness" by Antonio Damasio. Harvest Books, 2000.
"The
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994,"
by Jorie Graham. Ecco, 1997.
"Never,"
by Jorie Graham. HarperCollins, 2002.
“Being
No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity," by Thomas
Metzinger. MIT Press, 2003.
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more SciFri books here)
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Related Links:
The
Passionate Mind : Oct. 9-11 Utah Symposium in Science & ...
March
29, 2002, Hour Two: Joseph LeDoux - Synaptic Self
September
24 1999, Hour 2: John Horgan
BBC
- Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2003 - The Emerging Mind - Lecture 2: Synapses
and the Self
Researchers
discover mind's key to self -image
This segment produced by Karin Vergoth
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